Isaac Gallery

Prestwich Asylum, Lancashire

View of the Superintendent's House at the Lancashire County Lunatic Asylum, at Bury New Road, Prestwich, near Manchester, designed by Isaac Holden and opened in 1851. It was also known as Prestwich Asylum, Lancashire County Mental Hospital, and Prestwich Hospital

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Charing Cross, Carlton House and the Quadrant, Regent Street

Charing Cross, Carlton House and the Quadrant, Regent Street. Statue of King Charles I by Le Sueur at Charing Cross 70, Carlton House by architect Henry Holland demolished in 1826 71 and the County Fire Office surmounted by an observatory and statue of Britannia in the Quadrant, Regent Street, completed in 1825 72. Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Isaac Taylor from City Scenes, or a Peep into London, by Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor, published by Harvey and Darton, Gracechurch Street, London, 1828. English sisters Ann and Jane Taylor were prolific Romantic poets and writers of children's books in the early 19th century

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Chair-mender, News Boy, Flying Pieman and Blackfriar's

Chair-mender, News Boy, Flying Pieman and Blackfriar's Bridge. Chair-mender repairing a chair seat with rushes in Punyer Alley 46, newspaper boy selling papers and pieman selling pies near the Obelisk on Fleet Street 47, and watermen under Blackfriar's Bridge built in 1760 by architect Robert Mylne 48. Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Isaac Taylor from City Scenes, or a Peep into London, by Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor, published by Harvey and Darton, Gracechurch Street, London, 1828. English sisters Ann and Jane Taylor were prolific Romantic poets and writers of children's books in the early 19th century

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